Category: War Correspondents

A United Press correspondent's view of the Mediterranean war from November 1940 to the clearing of Africa in 1943.

HAWKINS, Desmond. War Report: A Record of Dispatches Broadcast by the BBC's War Correspondents with the Allied Expeditionary Force 6 June 1944 - 5 May 1945. 452p., illus. London: Oxford University Press, 1946.

The reports were broadcast live from the front by a group of now legendary reporters. Transcripts of some two dozen reports are included with much background information and some relevant naval material. Reprinted in paperback by Ariel Books in 1985 (ISBN: 0563204214). A revised edition was published by BBC Books in 1994 (ISBN: 0563370998) with the new sub-title Radio Reports from the Western Front 1944-45. A revised and expanded edition was then published in 2014 by BBC Books (ISBN: 9781849907767), with an introduction by John Simpson and the new sub-title BBC Dispatches From the Front Line, 1944-45.

WINN, Godfrey. Scrapbook of Victory: Further Extracts from a War-time Scrapbook. 124p., illus. London: Hutchinson, 1945.

Much of this comes from his weekly scrapbook in Woman’s Illustrated. A sort of diary with entries ranging from two sentences to two pages.

A journalist's reports "from the front line," on various aspects of the war effort, many of them naval.

The Mediterranean in 1943 and events surrounding the Italian surrender.

The story of a war correspondent progressively chased through the Balkans to Crete and on to Egypt.

The autobiography of a retired seaman turned journalist and novelist. Includes some details of his wartime travels when observing the Navy in action.

The best of war reporting covers all theaters and events up to the end of 1943.

The diary of a slow Atlantic convoy. Reynolds was a well-known war correspondent. During the trip he ruminates on some of his more hectic assignments.

He was an expatriate Norwegian and ex–seaman turned BBC war correspondent. This volume of autobiography consists largely of an account of an Atlantic round trip, outwards on a Norwegian tanker and home on Penelope, fresh from a refit in the USA.

The author was the first official newspaper "eyewitness" appointed to the RN. He was on the Prince of Wales when the Hood was sunk and records this action along with a miscellany of short pieces on the life and work of the Navy.

A year in the life of an American CBS war correspondent, from April 1941 until March 1942. Brown was onboard Repulse when she was sunk and vividly describes the action. He also had brief contact with the Mediterranean Fleet.

Memoirs of a war correspondent with limited mention of naval affairs.

An American newspaperman's tale of the fall of the East. After a hazardous escape from Shanghai, he went to Java. As the Japanese advanced he escaped in the freighter Poelau Bras, was sunk, rescued, then captured and imprisoned.

A reporter's impressions of the Battle of the Atlantic. At least three editions were published.

A newspaper reporter accredited to the Australian armed forces gives his impressions of 1942, mainly in New Guinea. He spent some time with the RAN.

Mainly concerned with WWI, there is a lengthy account of service as a war correspondent in WWII.

General impressions of the war, some of which cover the war at sea.

Memoirs of a war correspondent who reported on the war from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and the Dodecanese.

A war report of the fight for North Africa from the Torch landings to the German surrender. He spent some time with the Royal Navy.

A good background history describing the experiences of this intrepid band.

A war correspondent's account of the liberation of Hong Kong and of the experiences of some of the survivors in Japanese hands.